Ivan Alekseevich Loskutov (November 2 1918 [3] - 1994 , Vladivostok ) - during the Great Patriotic War, lieutenant , platoon commander of the artillery battery control (June - September 1941), battery commander (September 1941 - January 1943) of the 104th cannon artillery regiment , chief of staff (January 1943 - February 1944), commander (from February 1944) of the 283rd artillery division. The prototype of Lieutenant Petrov (“Lenka”) from the poem by K. M. Simonov “ The son of an artilleryman ”.
| Ivan Alekseevich Loskutov | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | November 2, 1918 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Mironovka village, Ohan region of Perm region [1] [2] | |||||
| Date of death | November 8, 1994 (aged 76) | |||||
| A place of death | Vladivostok | |||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||
| Type of army | artillery | |||||
| Years of service | 1938 [3] - 1986 | |||||
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| Part | 104th Army Cannon Artillery Regiment | |||||
| Commanded | topographic intelligence platoon | |||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||
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In October 1941, Simonov, who in the summer of 1941 decided to write a series of correspondence from the most extreme sections of the Soviet-German front, went after staying in Crimea to the Northern Front .
From Murmansk on October 17, 1941, Simonov crossed to the Rybachy Peninsula , which was indeed the northernmost point of the front, and was there until the beginning of November 1941.
On the last day of his stay on the peninsula, Rybachy Major E.S. Ryklis , commander of the 104th Army Cannon Artillery Regiment , whose heavy batteries of 122mm and 152mm guns were located on the Sredny and Rybachy peninsulas, told him the story in July 1941 he was forced to send for adjustment of artillery fire to one of the heights on the peninsula of the Middle son of his old army friend - Lieutenant I. A. Loskutov.
On July 31, 1941, together with two radio operators, Lieutenant I.A. Loskutov climbed to a height and from there, within 6 days, adjusted the artillery fire on the radio. According to the data transmitted by Loskutov, the mortar battery, a large group of infantry, several machine-gun points were destroyed by fire. However, the enemy troops located the correctional group and, after not bringing the result of mortar and artillery shelling of the heights, were forced to attack the heights. Surrounded by altitude from all sides, German soldiers began to climb up.
As I. A. Loskutov recalled:
We had no choice but to cause a fire directly in height. We gave such a team, but the regiment commander considered this a mistake, and asked again, and only after our secondary team a flurry of our artillery fire hit the heights.
The advancing Germans were partially destroyed, and the rest fled. During the shelling, we tried to hide and remained alive, however, the state was terrible. The radio station was broken, and our further stay at a height without communication with the regiment was pointless, and I decided to return to the regiment. [four]
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For the feat of I.A. Loskutov was awarded the medal "For Courage" .
Based on his impressions of the story told, K. M. Simonov wrote the poem “The Son of the Gunner”, the prototype of Lieutenant Petrov in which was I. A. Loskutov, the prototype of Major Deyev was E. S. Ryklis; moreover, the poem indicates the place of action corresponding to real events.
- ... here's the story
- About these glorious things
- On the Middle Peninsula
- I was told ...
In reality, there were (excluding, of course, surnames) two differences from the poem. In the poem, Lenka went on an adjustment alone, in reality, with two radio operators (privates Georgy Makarov and Grigory Mekhonoshin) and a guide, who, being wounded, returned. Also, Lenka’s father, according to the poem, who actually fought in the southern sector of the front, did not die, but was seriously wounded, but survived and died only in 1965.
I.A. Loskutov fought the entire war in the 104th artillery regiment , ended the war in the Pacific Ocean , continued his service in the Pacific Fleet , ended his career as a colonel , as a senior personnel officer in the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet. During the war he was awarded four orders and a medal.
He died in 1994 and was buried in the Forest Cemetery of Vladivostok.
Rewards
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree [2]
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree [1]
- Two Orders of the Red Star [5]
- Medal "For Courage" [3]
Literature
- Simonov K. M. Different days of the war. The diary of a writer . - M .: Fiction, 1982.
- Evgeny Yakovlev. The search for heroes lasted thirty years // Ryazan Vedomosti: newspaper. - 2001. - No. 93 (1091) of May 16 . (inaccessible link)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Card of the person awarded for the 40th anniversary of Victory in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ”.
- ↑ 1 2 Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” (archival materials of TsVMA , f. 3, op. 1, d. 787, p. 625-626).
- ↑ 1 2 3 Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 682524 , d. 34 , p. 246-247 ).
- ↑ Simonov, 1982 .
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” (archive materials of TsVMA , f. 3, op. 1, d. 1578, p. 381).